Ariana Grande-Butera (born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Boca Raton, Florida, to a family of southern Italian heritage, Grande began her career by acting in the 2008 Broadway musical 13. In 2011-2013, Grande starred as a main cast member of Nickelodeon's Victorious and starred in the short-lived Nickelodeon spin-off Sam and Cat of the latter series. After she grew interested in pursuing a music career. Grande recorded songs for the soundtrack of Victorious, and signed with Republic Records in 2011 after the label's executives discovered videos of her covering songs that she uploaded onto YouTube. She released her debut album, Yours Truly, in 2013 and debuted atop the US Billboard 200.
Grande's second studio album, My Everything (2014), continued the pop-R&B sound of its predecessor and incorporated EDM elements and became her second to top the US charts. Her third studio album, Dangerous Woman (2016) continued the pop-R&B sound of its predecessor and became her first number-one album in the UK. Grande experimented with trap on her next albums, Sweetener (2018), Thank U, Next (2019), Positions (2020) and Eternal Sunshine (2024) while maintaining her characteristic pop-R&B tones.
Work with Lady Gaga
She worked with Lady Gaga on the following song(s):
Songs from Chromatica (2020):
- "Rain On Me" (Songwriter, featured artist)
In an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music's Beats 1, Lady Gaga talked about first meeting and collaborating with Ariana Grande.
| “ | Her [Ariana] and I connected right away and she was so wonderful. And I think maybe she assumed that it be that she came in and I was like, "Here, just sing this and thank you so much for your time," right? But instead I asked her what she needed, how she wanted to do things. When we were vocally producing her, I was sitting there, not this console [Gaga points to the console that was behind her during the interview]. We were at Jim Henson when we finished. I was sitting at the console and talking to her. And then I remember I said to her, "Okay, now everything that you care about while you sing, I want you to forget it and just sing. And by the way, while you're doing that, I'm going to dance in front of you," because we had this huge big window. And she was like, "Oh, my God. Oh, my God, I can't, I can't. I don't know. Oh, my God. Okay, okay." And then I did it and she sang, and she started to do things with her voice that was different. And it was the joy of two artists going like, "I see you. And I see all the things that we all--" And it was just awesome to watch her. She was so open to trying things that she hasn't done before. She was like, "I'm going to just trust you." And it was this beautiful, I think very healing process for me to not necessarily having a female artist that mentored me as I came up. And being able to be with her and hold her and be like, "Anything that you feel chains you, like any, like, pop cultural construct that you feel you have to live up to, I'd like you to please forget about it and be yourself." [...] That woman has been through some really tough, really hard life testing stuff. [She has an] ability to move on. When she came into the studio, I was still crying and she was not. And she was like, she was like, "You're going to be okay. I got you. Call me, here's my number." And she was so persistent. She would try over and over again to be friends with me. And I was too ashamed to hang out with her, because I didn't want to project all of this like negativity onto something that was healing and so beautiful. And eventually she called me on my shit. She was like, "You're hiding." And I was like, "I am hiding. I'm totally hiding." And then this friendship blossomed. | ” |
—Lady Gaga on Apple Music | ||
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